Bonner County History - Sept. 5, 2021

From the archives of the

Bonner County History Museum

611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho, 83864

208-263-2344

50 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Sept. 5, 1971 – GOLDEN WEDDING

Mr. and Mrs. Millard O. Kidd celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Aug. 29, with an open house in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Marley, 414 Euclid. The Kidds were married September, 1921 in the Sandpoint Methodist Church. They lived on Grouse Creek for five years, returning to Sandpoint in 1926. They have five children, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. One son is deceased.

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BRIAN KINCAID IS VIETNAM BOUND

Pfc. Brian Kincaid, arrived here Thursday after serving eight months in Germany. After a short visit at the home of his mother, Mrs. James Kincaid, Route 2, he left Monday for transfer to Vietnam where he will probably get a chance to see his father, WO James Kincaid, who is stationed at Than Son Hut Air Base. Brian will serve as a helicopter door gunner. His father is on his second tour in Vietnam where he has been for 18 months. He also served 18 months in Thailand.

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CARLSON AT FT. SAM HOUSTON, TEX.

Pvt. Thomas Carlson is based at the U.S. Medical Training Ctr., Ft. Sam Houston, after basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Carlson, he is a 1971 SHS graduate.

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MISS JOANNE MILLER IS NEW HOME AGENT

Bonner County has a new home agent. Joanne Miller, Rigby, a 1971 graduate of Brigham Young University, will fill the post vacated by Kathy Farrell, who recently married and moved to Colorado.

100 Years Ago

Pend d’Oreille Review

Sept. 5, 1921 – CITY BREVITIES

A license to wed was issued to Millard O. Kidd, 24, of Elmira, and Selma Arvidson, 20, of Sandpoint.

A carelessly thrown cigarette butt set fire to debris on the beach, threatening a pile of poles owned by Charles Rudine. The fire scorched poles at the edge of the pile, but was checked before it did damage.

Bill Strother, the “human spider,” who climbed the Farmin school and R. & A. buildings here recently, was badly burned at Coeur d’Alene when a wheel he was carrying down a fire escape came in contact with a 2300-volt electric wire. He had just finished scaling a building and rode the wheel around the cornice. Despite his burns, he appeared afterward at a Coeur d’Alene theater.

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HERON, MONT. HALF WIPED OUT BY FIRE

A brush fire started at Heron to clear a site for a portable sawmill, is reported as the origin of flames which wiped out half the town and cleaned out a post and pole yard. The town’s loss will probably approach $15,000 and the loss at the yards will be over $15,000. The buildings lost include the N.P. depot and all station records, two warehouses, a blacksmith shop, the old Odd Fellows’ hall or hotel building and two old saloon buildings in the same row, as well as five residences that were occupied. Most of the store buildings were unoccupied.

For more information, visit the museum online at bonnercountyhistory.org.